Election 2012: Voters in line when polls close at 8 p.m. can still cast votes

SAGINAW, MI — The long lines that snaked around Saginaw County polling centers early Tuesday, Nov. 6 have dissipated, but voters stuck in line when the polls start to close at 8 p.m. still will be able to cast their ballots.

“Everybody in line (at 8 p.m.) gets to vote,” said Saginaw County Clerk Sue Kaltenbach. “It’s the law.”

“Someone (a poll worker) goes to the end of the line and says, ‘This is the last person who gets to vote,’” Kaltenbach said.

Two dozen voters waited in line at the Saginaw Township polling center at Center Courts, 3320 N. Center, on Tuesday evening.

Poll worker Terry Griffing said the longest line at the center had about a 25-minute wait early in the morning, just after the polls opened.

In Saginaw, poll worker Cassie MacGregon said voters had to wait about 45 minutes to vote this morning, but there was no line at 6 p.m.